Handley Page - Sweat Shirt Fleet Air Arm In August 1940 R6886 was

In August 1940 R6886 was stationed at RAF Hornchurch

The Blackbird is the creation of the Lockheed 'Skunk Works' division

000 operations with the loss of 1

The English Electric Company Limited

Most famous were the Flying Tigers

Handley Page - Sweat Shirt Fleet Air Arm In August 1940 R6886 wasHandley Page Limited Handley Page was Britain's very first aircraft manufacturing company, formed in 1909 by Frederick Handley Page. In 1912 the factory moved from Barking to Cricklewood Aerodrome. During the First World War Handley Page produced heavy bombers for the Royal Navy to bomb the Zeppelin yards. Between the wars Handley Page turned to transport aircraft, becoming Imperial Airways. At the onset of the next war, bomber production restarted